Central Michigan University students were met
Saturday night with another
alert, this time for an armed
robbery three blocks north of
campus.
The Mount Pleasant Police
Department is investigating
an armed robbery that occurred Saturday at approximately 11 p.m. at the corner of
S. Main and E. May streets.
A Central Alert sent out
to the campus community
at approximately 11:45 p.m.
described the alleged suspects as three black males
— one wearing a gray jacket,
blue jeans and brown boots
— driving a black Chevrolet
extended cab pickup truck
with a cap.
Anyone with information is
asked to call Central Dispatch
at 989-773-1000 or the CMU
Police Department at 989774-3081.
Because it is an open investigation, details are closed
to the public until further

review. It is unknown at this
time who was robbed or if
CMU students were involved.
The MPPD is handling the
investigation because the
robbery occurred within city
limits, CMU police confirmed
early Sunday morning.
The robbery is the latest
in a string of violent, and, in
some cases, odd incidents
that have rocked the area and
the campus community in
recent months.
Last month, a Grand Rapids senior was abducted by
30-year-old Mount Pleasant
resident Eric Lee Ramsey
outside the Student Activity
Center. The CMU student
was able to escape, while
Ramsey was fatally shot by
a Crawford County sheriff ’s
deputy after a lengthy car
chase. In a news conference
the morning after the abduction, Isabella County sheriff
Leo Mioduszewski conceded
the amount of violent crime
in the area has increased
and that “our community is
changing.”
Early Friday morning, a

By Tony Wittkowski
Senior reporter

The surveillance footage
of the Jan. 16 abduction of a
Grand Rapids senior outside
of the Student Activity Center
shows that the incident occurred in Lot 62 West.
The victim was abducted at
gunpoint by Eric Lee Ramsey,
30, just north of the ticket
booth, about 10 spaces from
E. Campus Drive, Central
Michigan University Police
Department Detective Michael Sienkiewicz said. Sienkiewicz said there were other
people present in the area at
the time of the incident.
Although the tapes showed
no sign of a struggle, Central
Michigan University Police
Chief Bill Yeagley said the
victim did the only logical
thing in a situation involving
a weapon.
“I believe the victim did
everything absolutely right,”
Yeagley said. “Because when
someone holds a gun to your
head, you follow instructions.”

Campus Crusade for Christ, an interdenominational Christian organization, hosts a party for the Ravens v. 49ers Super Bowl XLVII game Sunday night at the Ward
Theatre, 218 S. Main St.

By Ryan Fitzmaurice | Staff reporter

They called it “The Kraken.”
The monstrosity, with ten fearsome
bacon tentacles stretching out of a

Sexual Aggression
Services Director Stephen
Thompson said the abduction would normally
never occur in that situation because of the crowd
present in the area. It was
particularly busy, as a
women’s basketball game
had concluded about half
an hour before the incident
reportedly happened.
According to a biography
found on CMU’s website,
Thompson has conducted
countless interviews with
convicted rapists, psychologists and doctors, as well as
thousands of survivors and
has trained and worked beside police officers throughout the country.
“You have to realize how
incredibly unique that
crime was,” Thompson
said. “I work with profiling
away from here, and for him
to target when there are
people around like that is
extremely rare.”
Yeagley said the parking
arrangement at the SAC did
not make a difference in the
abduction.
“Parking on this campus is limited, and so we
make best use of what’s
available,” Yeagley said.
“Our parking setup had no
impact on this event occurring; this guy was evil and
looking for an opportunity.”
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blood-red pool of beans, cheese and
beef was an overwhelming favorite to
win the Campus Crusade For Christ’s
Super Bowl 2013 dip competition in the
Ward Theatre, 218 S. Main St.
It was only the second
year CRu was able to
secure the Ward Theatre
for the Super Bowl and
only the second dip competition as well. Midland
senior Benjamin Puckett, the creator of The
Kracken, didn’t do so well
in last year’s competition, with a queso dip that
failed to inspire.
However, this year, he
had a different strategy.
“Actually, I kind of
just made it up as I went
along,” Puckett said. “Not
much of a plan, really, but

who doesn’t like beef and
bacon?”
The Ward Theatre was
one of several scenes
around town that was
fixated on the Super Bowl
Sunday night, which engulfed Mount Pleasant in
jovial celebration.
Troutman Hall was also
a hot spot, as a group of
friends gathered in the
common area for company
and more, importantly,
the larger television.
“I feel like this is one of
the more important Super
Bowls,” said Devon Lynch,

a Ypsilanti Mid Michigan
Community College student. “The 49ers quarterback was a backup in the
beginning of the year, and
he led them all the way
to the Super Bowl. That’s
big.”
Alisha Harper, an Eaton
Rapids junior, was watching the game three stories
above in Troutman Hall,
with Frasier junior Katelyn Nadolski and Linwood
junior Eric Klass, but
Harper was watching it
for different reasons.
“I’m here for the halftime show; I’m here to
watch Beyonce,” Harper
said. “She pretty much
owns the world. She’s the
woman version of Chuck
Norris.”
Shelby Township junior
Rachel Zott, watching
the game in a residence
on Washington street,
agreed. A Beyonce superfan, she has the special
ability to listen to Beyonce non-stop and never
get tired of it.
“She probably knows
karate,” Zott said. “She’s

part of that ‘Move Your
Body’ campaign with Michelle Obama.”
Residents and visitors of the S. Washington
apartment, including
Illinois sophomore Jack
Montroy and a dog, Steve
French, were also there
for the game.
“Steve kind of just finds
a spot,” Montroy said, as
the dog climbed up and
joined them on the couch.
“He has no sense of personal space, though. He’s
not very good at calling
his seat.”
John Lees, a Cheboygan senior, was fully
enveloped in the game at
Marty’s bar, 123 S. Main
St. He was cheering for
the Ravens for one distinct reason.
“I wouldn’t say I hate
San Fransisco; I just don’t
like them. The Tigers lost
to San Francisco,” Lees
said. “That’s why I’m
cheering against them;
they’ve won too many
times.”
A GAME | 2A

A drunken night ended
with a stab wound and a stay
at the hospital for a 20-yearold Central Michigan University student after he entered
two Copper Beech apartments without permission.
At 2:41 a.m. Friday, the
Isabella County Sheriff ’s
Department responded

to a stabbing at Copper
Beech Townhomes, 4750
E. Bluegrass Road, where a
20-year-old man was found
bleeding profusely from a
stab wound in his lower left
back, according to a news
release.
Witnesses said the man
was highly intoxicated and
entered two separate apartments without permission.
Individuals in the first

apartment said they heard
someone outside making
noise. When they opened
the door, they saw a man
urinating nearby, police said.
When they tried to shut the
door, the man held it open
and entered the apartment.
The man then stepped
back outside, and the residents were able to lock the
door, police said.
He then went around to

the back door and began
pounding and kicking it
before he headed inside an
empty neighboring apartment.
When the residents
returned, they found the
man lying down in one of
the bedrooms. The residents
told him to leave, but he
refused, police said.
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CDC reports sexual violence levels just as high for lesbians, gay men as heterosexuals
By Shelby Miller
Senior reporter

85%:

Victims sexually assaulted by someone they know

1/20:

Women or men who have reported experiencing sexual
violence other than rape

19%

Undergraduate women who have experienced
sexual assault or rape

1/5:

Women who have experienced rape at some
point in their lives

1/71:

Men who have experienced rape at some point in their lives

SOURCE: 2012 CDC SEXUAL VIOLENCE DATA

Sexual violence occurrence

Lesbians and gay men
experience intimate partner
and sexual violence at levels
equal to or higher than heterosexuals.
The Center for Disease
Control and Prevention’s first
National Intimate Partner
and Sexual Violence Survey,
tracked the national prevalence data on intimate partner
violence (IPV), sexual violence (SV) and stalking victimization by sexual orientation.

Director of the Office of
LGBTQ Services at Central
Michigan University Shannon
Jolliff-Dettore said research
surrounding sexual assault
within the queer community
is not often done, making the
information very significant.
“The information is important so folks can see the
need for resources focusing
on same-gender sexual assault
and intimate partner violence,” she said. “We need to
know this information so we
can begin work on prevention
and also resources for survi-

vors of SA or IPV.”
The survey found bisexual
women, who comprised 61
percent of the surveyed
population, report a higher
prevalence of rape, physical
violence and stalking by an
intimate partner compared
to both lesbians, 44 percent,
and heterosexual women, 35
percent.
“It is not an unknown fact
that SA and IPV happens
across all sexual orientations,”
Jolliff-Dettore said. “The
study provides the numbers
behind that knowledge so

there is a better understanding
of the need for resources.”
Of the bisexual women who
experienced IPV, approximately 90 percent reported
having only male perpetrators,
while two-thirds of lesbians
reported having only female
perpetrators of IPV.
Director of Sexual Aggression Services Stephen Thompson said, although this type
of information is not new, the
crime is common everywhere
and needs to be addressed.
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2 || Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 || Central Michigan Life

CDC |

EVENTS
CALENDAR

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TODAY
w “Fifty Shades of Black,” a

program that creates awareness
about the men and women who
impact the African-American
community, will be held in the
Herrig Classroom beginning at
7 p.m. Contact Tara Novak at
(989)774-3945 for details.

TUESDAY
w The Employer Spotlight

Program offers students an
opportunity to connect with
future employers and will be
held from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
on the first floor of Grawn Hall.
Contact Brian Partie, Jr. in Career
Services at (989) 774-3068 for
details.
w Black History Month Soup

and Substance event called
“Bridging the Gap: How Far
Have We Really Come?” will be
held from noon until 1 p.m. in
the Bovee UC 221 Rotunda Room.
The event is free and open to
the public.
w Brandon “Real Talk” Williams

will perform a poetry slam
beginning at 6 p.m. in the Bovee
US 221 Rotunda Room. This event
is part of Black History Month.

WEDNESDAY
w Safer Sex Patrol kit stuffing

will take place from 8 a.m. until
5 p.m. in the Bovee UC Room
118. Contact Jason Vasquez in
the Volunteer Center at (616)
802-0910 with questions.

“This is an extremely underreported crime to begin with,”
he said. “When it occurs in the
LGBTQ community, it is less
likely to be reported due to a
variety of reasons.”
The data presented does not
indicate whether violence occurs more often in same-sex or
opposite sex couples. Rather,
the data shows the prevalence
of lifetime victimization of
intimate partner violence,
sexual violence and stalking of
respondents who self-identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual
and describes violence experienced with both same-sex and
opposite-sex partners.
“We know that violence
affects everyone, regardless of
sexual orientation,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said. “This
report suggests that lesbians,
gay men and bisexuals in this
country suffer a heavy toll of
sexual violence and stalking
committed by an intimate
partner,” Frieden said. “While
intervening and providing services are important, prevention
is equally critical.”
According to the CDC’s 2012
Sexual Violence data, nearly
one in five women and one in
71 men reported experiencing

STABBING |
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The individual then lunged
at one of the residents, and
a struggled ensued. The
individual was stabbed in
the lower back by one of the
residents and received a nonlife- threatening wound.
He was transported to
McLaren-Central Michigan.
Isabella County Sheriff
Leo Mioduszewski said both
parties involved were Central
Michigan University students
but declined to release names.
“Obviously, this stabbing
was one of those situations
where you have an individual
not knowing where he was at
the time,” he said.
The prosecutor’s office has
determined that no arrests
will be made at this time.
However, Mioduszewski said
it will read police statements
to determine what, if any,

rape at some time in their lives.
“Across all sexual orientations, we need to raise awareness around prevention and
resources for individuals who
are survivors of SA and IPV,”
Joliff-Dettore said.
In the year prior to the survey, nearly one in 20 women
and men experienced sexual
violence other than rape.
Since entering college, 19
percent of undergraduate
women experienced attempted
or completed sexual assault.
“The numbers are significant and show a need for
awareness education,” Thompson said. “People need to be
aware that this is a problem
that affects all.”
More than 20 sexual assault
cases occur on campuses each
week, Central Michigan Life
previously reported. However,
the national sexual report rate
is as low as five in 100.
Thompson said 85 percent
of sexual assault victims are assaulted by someone they know.
In order to lower these
occurrences, more education needs to be provided to
address why people act out
aggressively. By doing that,
more awareness will be created about the issue of sexual
aggression and bystander behavior, Thompson said.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

CHUCK MilleR/Staff PhotograPher

Mount Pleasant resident Sean Puttman, 6, gets water during a break while playing hockey at Rose Pond outside of the
Student Activity Center. Puttman is a member of the Mount Pleasant Patriots 8-and- under team. With no game to play,
they decided to come out and play hockey the old-fashioned way.

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For the Super Bowl,
Lees and his friends were,
of course, in their spot,
where they preside every

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charges will be filed. If so, an
arraignment will follow.
“Was the guy so intoxicated
that he didn’t know what
was happening? Did he have
criminal intent by going into
two apartments? Was the guy
who did the stabbing acting
in self-defense?” he said. “Any
time there’s a stabbing, it’s
serious. But (this incident)
wasn’t anything pre-meditated.”
The case remains under
investigation by the Isabella
County Sheriff ’s Department.
This marks Mount Pleasant’s fourth stabbing since
September, including a
Thanksgiving weekend
incident that killed 20-yearold Tyrone Stanley of Mount
Pleasant. Curtis R. Leachman, the man alleged to have
killed Stanley on Nov. 24, is
scheduled to stand trial in
mid-March. He was charged
with open murder and witness intimidation.

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20-year-old man was stabbed
after he entered two apartments at Copper Beech Townhomes, 4750 E. Bluegrass
Road, without permission.
That marked the third stabbing in Mount Pleasant since
September.
On Nov. 24, 20-year-old

VICTIM |
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The victim’s car was
parked further away from
the entrance of the SAC, but,
with the size of the university,
there are certain restrictions
the police try to counteract

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Sunday night.
“This is where we’re
always at every Sunday
night,” Lees said. “It’s
always Sunday night at
Marty’s.”
Caleb Phillips, a Leslie
senior, was across town at
O’Kelly’s, 2000 S. Mission
St. A self-described 49ers

fan from birth, their early
deficit, a score of 21-6,
didn’t concern him.
“They’ve come back
from much more than this
before,” Phillips said. “I
have faith that they will
still pull this off.”

Mount Pleasant resident
Tyrone D. Stanley died from a
stab wound in an apartment
on S. Main Street. Additionally,
non-fatal stabbings occurred
at a party on Washington
Street on Nov. 5 and at an
apartment complex on E.
Deerfield Road Sept. 16.
On Oct. 31, John Douglas
White, 55, allegedly murdered
Rebekah Jane Gay, 24, in her
Broomfield Township mobile
home, 3303 S. Coldwater Road.
In addition, former

CMU student Kayla Ashlyn
Bonkowski, 19, was accused
of poisoning her roommate’s
iced tea with bleach on Nov. 7.
Bonkowski had her bond revoked last month after she was
seen at Wayside Central, 2000
S. Mission St., at the same time
as her roommate on Jan. 8.

with additional staff and collaboration with the sponsors
of the events.
“We always want to get
people as close to the event
as we can,” Yeagley said. “And
we have staff assigned to those
areas, and we work together
with the sponsor of those
events to have security.”
Yeagley said there are more
than 500 cameras scattered

around campus, with several
surveying the SAC. There are
cameras in the entryway that
cover portions of the parking lot and different locations
within the SAC, he said.
CMU police have been in
contact with the victim as well
as her family for additional
support.

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Students and their families showed
their Central Michigan University spirit
and broke the record for most siblings
to attend Sibs Weekend Friday, Saturday
and Sunday.

This year marked the 50th
anniversary of Sibs Weekend,
which began in 1963 and has
since become a CMU tradition.
“The cool thing about this
weekend is that we have the
record-high amount of siblings this year,” Livonia senior
and Sibs Weekend co-chair
Kristin Turbiak said. “We
have more than 1,500 participants this year, so it’s really
cool to be able to celebrate
the golden anniversary with
the large amount of CMU
students and their siblings.”
Turbiak is an advocate of
the bonding time the weekend provides.
“It’s a very great opportunity and very special to
them,” Turbiak said. “… We
spend, let’s say, nine months
of the year at CMU, so it’s a
great way to introduce their
immediate family to their
CMU family. It’s a great way
for them to meet, have fun,

hang out with their siblings
and have more bonding time
with them.”
During the weekend, there
were several activities going
on for students of all ages,
from the CMU men’s basketball game to bingo, rock
climbing, movie nights and a
carnival, which allowed some
to have their faces painted.
Rachelle Spence of Chesterfield took her siblings
ice-skating and went to the
carnival, where they took
pictures in the photo booth
and had sibling rivalry while
racing through the inflatable
obstacle course.
“It was really a lot of fun,”
said Connor, Spence’s 11-yearold brother. “It’s my third
year going. The first time, I
was a little nervous. I was a
little lost, but then I got really
used to it, and it was a lot of
fun.”
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KaiTliN THoReseN/Staff PhotograPher

Perry junior Sarah Dysinger holds up her cousin Kaylee Davis, 10, also of Perry, so that she can pet the American alligator
during the Sibs Weekend Carnival Saturday afternoon at the Student Activity Center. The animals were from the Whispering
Pines Mobile Petting Zoo.

Program Board: ron Jeremy will not appear at feb. 19 porn debate
Porn star to remain in hospital,
but event might still go on
By Ryan Fitzmaurice
Staff reporter

ized in Los Angeles after
suffering a heart aneurysm
Tuesday afternoon. TMZ.
com reported Thursday
Jeremy will remain at
Cedars-Sinai Hospital for
the next two weeks while
doctors monitor his heart.
“I spoke to Ron’s agent

yesterday,
and Ron
will not
be able to
speak at
CMU in
February,”
Program
Board
Ron Jeremy
Director
Damon Brown said.
No decision has been
made whether or not the
event will be rescheduled.
“We were given a couple
of options, and we will

decide (this) week how we
want to proceed … We have
some options that we, as an
executive board, need to
discuss, and then we will go
from there,” Brown said.
Feb. 19th’s “Great Porn
Debate” was scheduled to
feature Jeremy and antiporn pastor Craig Gross in
Plachta Auditorium and
was one of a variety of
sexual awareness programs
Program Board is sponsoring in February.
“Ron is currently in ICU

recovering from two major
heart surgeries today … The
surgeries went well,” Ron’s
management team posted
on his Facebook page
Wednesday night. “… His
doctors and his family now
just want him to rest and
have complete privacy.”
Program Board agreed
to pay $13,000 for Ron
Jeremy’s appearance and
expected a large turnout for
the event.
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university seeking public input for campus master plan
By Samantha Smallish
Staff reporter

Central Michigan University is set to hold two meetings this week seeking public
input for the 2013 campus
master plan.
The meetings will be held
in the Ausable Room in the
Bovee University Center
Tuesday and Wednesday at 5
p.m. and 11 a.m, respectively.
Land use, such as green
space, bike paths, parking,
future building locations and
sidewalks will be discussed.
The entire master plan

team will be present at both
meetings. Students, faculty,
alum and Mount Pleasant
community members are
encouraged to attend these
meetings in order to provide
input.
“The master planning
process supports the university’s goals, mission and
values,” Director of Plant
Engineering and Planning
Linda Slater said via email.
“It strengthens the vitality of
CMU’s academic community
and the environment for
student success.”
Slater said the CMU Board

of Trustees approved funding
for a Campus Facilities Master Plan in July 2012.
In August 2012, CMU
hired SHW Group, an architectural and planning firm
that has done previous work
for CMU, to head the project.
Other consultants include
Paulien and Associates, from
Denver, Co., and a group of
engineers from Fishbeck,
Thompson, Carr and Huber
of Grand Rapids.
With help from more
than 175 people at CMU,
the master plan team has
been collecting data from

CMU’s campus by observing pedestrian walking and
vehicle patterns and building
entries, inspecting building
space and utility systems and
the examining various ways
to use the available space on
campus.
“(The master plan) provides guidance for current
and future academic space,
support space, student housing, parking and the facilities
infrastructure for CMU,”
Slater said.
At Tuesday and Wednesday’s meetings these
consultants will be meeting

with various on-campus
organizations, including the
Academic Senate, Athletics,
CMU police, the Council of
Chairs, the Council of Deans,
Development & External
Relations, Dining Services,
Enrollment and Student Services, Facilities Management,
Finance and Administrative
Services, Global Campus,
the Office of Information
Technology, Residence Life
and the Student Government
Association.
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Central Michigan University
will work to fulfill the requirements under the new right-towork law signed by Michigan
Gov. Rick Snyder in December.
The law, effective March 27,
places Michigan on the path to
becoming the 24th state with
RTW legislation.
“(The university will) comply with its obligations under
the law as well as its obligations under its agreements
with its unions,” according to a
news release issued last week.
Because of the RTW legislation, unions across the state
will become open shops. This
means union membership and
payment of dues to a union
cannot be a required condition
of employment for public employees, which applies to CMU
because it is a public university.
However, a union can continue to represent all employees and still has the duty to
represent any employee fairly,
regardless of their membership.
These requirements make it
so public employees are protected from being pressured
into joining or supporting a
union. The law also established
penalties for the violation of
any of these terms.
At Wayne State University,
the faculty union wants to have
a provision in a 10-year contract that would allow for the
collection of dues, even after
the law is passed.
“Right-to-work was an
attack on unions, and we’re
trying to defend ourselves the
best we can,” WSU Faculty
Union President Charlie Parrish told the Detroit Free Press
last week.
Wayne State is just one of
various union groups trying to
fight the new law.
The RTW law only applies
to any collective bargaining
agreements that have been
entered into or renewed after
March 27.
CMU Faculty Association
President Laura Frey said the
FA will continue to work for
faculty member’s rights to a
quality workplace.
“CMU FA remains committed to collective bargaining.
The (FA) leadership is actively
reviewing options to support
faculty rights to a fair, equitable
workplace environment,” Frey
said via email.
The change in the RTW legislation will be another topic
for the FA, which includes
more than 600 members.
The FA and CMU reached
an agreement on a three-year
contract on Dec. 1, 2011, after
months of turmoil, heading in
a strike that canceled classes in
August 2011. Several meetings
and litigation, which began in
April, then ensued between the
FA and CMU.
Since the fall, relations have
calmed significantly between
both sides, although tensions of
the previous year are still being
resolved.
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Walk for Warmth raises more than
$1,400 for families in need
By Nichole Rombach
Staff reporter

More than 100 people
braved the cold Saturday to get
a taste of what those without
heat in their homes experience
every day.
Outfitted with gloves,
scarves and hats, walkers met
at the Mount Pleasant Housing
Commission, 1 Mosher St., to
kick off the third-annual “Walk
for Warmth,” aiming to raise
both awareness and funds in
order to help heat the homes of
low-income families in Gratiot,
Ionia, Isabella and Montcalm
counties. It was one of several
walks taking place statewide.
While donations are still

coming in and other events are
to be held, the total for the day
amounted to $1,427.90. Consumers Energy will match the
total with an estimated $1,000.
Shannon Collin, EightCAP
employee, has been involved
with the walk for three years
and has recently taken on a
new position that allows her
to see how the funds are put to
use firsthand, usually working to distribute the money to
families.
“It makes it all worth it,”
Collin said. “I’ve been amazed
seeing how many people are
homeless or without heat and
electricity, and it’s amazing to
see how thankful they are.”
Mary Schneider, another

EightCAP employee, has been
hosting this event for years to
raise funds for instances where
grant money is unavailable or
people are simply ineligible.
Fellow EightCAP employee
Todd Furlong said the organization intends to supplement
existing funds in the face of
cuts in federal funding.
In 2012, EightCAP was able
to assist 222 individuals.
Partnering with EightCAP
in the fight against poverty is
Consumers Energy.
“For me, it’s all about helping people,” Consumers Energy
employee Brenda Johnson
said. “I don’t want people to
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ZaCK WiTTMaN/Staff PhotograPher

Lansing resident Mary Stasek holds a Consumers Energy banner during Walk for Warmth Saturday morning at the Mount Pleasant
Housing Commission, 1 Mosher St. The walk will benefit those who cannot afford to heat their homes in Isabella County.

Completing a regional
survey and creating an
advisory board are the
future initiatives for the
Mid-Michigan Area Health
Education Center at Central
Michigan University.
Executive Director Lisa
Hadden leads the program,
which was created in 2010
by a federal grant to recruit
and train a health care
workforce in Michigan.
“We believe this program is much-needed, as
Michigan is suffering from
a shortage of professionals
in almost all fields in health
care,” Hadden said via email.
“We really enjoy our work
and believe that our contributions over time will bring
something to the table.”
The AHEC is a non-profit
corporation housed in the
College of Medicine at
CMU built on three pillars:
recruitment, placement and
retention.
Hadden said the corporation has plans to complete a
regional survey to assess the
needs and assets that support
or create barriers to access to
primary care.
A regional advisory board
encompassing 19 local counties is also on the agenda to
assist in following through on
the goals of the Mid-Michigan AHEC.
“We will also be meeting
with the Michigan Works!
Program to assess their

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be without heat, so I’ll do anything I can to help.”
Student volunteers were
stationed along the downtown route, greeting walkers
as they passed.
Kingsley sophomore
Nicole Fisher, who comes

training
programs
in health
professions
and gain
an understanding of
the type of
credentials
Lisa Hadden
needed for
various positions in health
care,” Hadden said.
Since her resignation as
president of the Mount Pleasant Area Chamber of Commerce on July 12, Hadden
said she has focused on the
foundational work to get the
AHEC corporation up and
running.
“This took several months
of hiring and training staff,
establishing a board of directors, developing a budget,
updating bylaws and working
with many departments of
the university to finalize our
service agreements,” she said.
The AHEC hosted a simulcast, a simultaneous transmission of the same program,
in the Health Professions
auditorium on Jan. 25 for
CMED and College of Health
Professions faculty.
At the live event at Saginaw

Valley State University, two
nationally renowned speakers focused on enhancing
the quality, effectiveness and
accountability of care across
the continuum.
Another current initiative
involves working with the
AHEC office at Wayne State
University to provide afterschool tutoring in math and
science and summer camp
opportunities for five local
high schools.
Dentistry and veterans
programs are also current
priorities for the Mid-Michigan AHEC.
While the initial five
months of work hasn’t
involved interacting with students, Hadden said it is a goal.
“Once we meet all of the
structural recruitment for
the grant and our funders at
Wayne State University, we
will be more involved in educating students about opportunities in the health careers
and the related educational
requirements,” Hadden said.
Calls made to CMED Dean
Ernest Yoder were not returned in time for publication.
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“We believe this program is much-needed,
as Michigan is suffering from a shortage of
professionals in almost all fields in health care.”
Lisa Hadden, Executive Director of Mid-Michigan Area
Health Education Center at Central Michigan University

By Shelby Miller
Senior Reporter

A Farwell mother, 37,
has been arrested for
threatening Beal City
School personnel, forcing
the school into a lockdown.
Beal City High School,
3117 Elias Road, went into
lockdown around 9:10 a.m.
Friday when the mother
of a former student made

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Spence said this Sibs
Weekend is bittersweet because she’s graduating at the
end of the spring semester.
Spence and her younger
siblings said they have been
having a Sibs Weekend
countdown to the event and
has been the highlight of
their year.
“It means a lot because
I get to spend quality time
with them,” Spence said. “…
And being able to show them
why I love this university
so much. It’s just a lot of
bonding and things to do. So,
we get to have a jam-packed
weekend of fun.”

Rochester Hills sophomore Cianna Fant wanted
her brother to see what she
does while she is at school
and away from home.
“I just think it’s fun that
your siblings can come and
see what you do throughout the school year while
they’re at home, and you get
to spend time with them,
and there are activities,”
Fant said.
Fant’s 15-year-old brother
Jalen said he misses his
sister when she’s away but
was happy to reconnect with
her over the weekend. Jalen
said he also enjoys coming to

PLAN |

the meetings this week,
there will be open office
hours in the Ausable Room
in the UC Tuesday from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.and Wednesday
from 1 to 7 p.m.
In addition, the master
plan team will reunite the
week of Feb. 25 to work on
design concepts to address
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from a small area herself and
is familiar with the cause,
appreciates the fact that it
is a local effort where 100
percent of the proceeds goes
to the community.
Senior Kierstin DeWitt of
Port Huron and junior Marie
Foggia of Brownstown were
at the walk representing
the Student Association of
Nutrition.
“The walk was brought to

my attention by one of our
members” DeWitt said. “It
seemed like a good charity
to help, so we decided to
volunteer.”
Walkers were invited back
to warm up afterward and
help judge a soup and chili
cook-off, putting donations
in the jars to vote for their
favorite.
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threats to school personnel saying she was going to
“level the building.”
“She was upset at the
school,” Isabella County
Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski
said. “Evidently, she was
trying to get her daughter
back there. The mother
became irate.”
The woman was arrested
and is currently being held
at the Isabella County Jail.
She will be arraigned Saturday or Monday, depend-

They will also meet with
the city of Mount Pleasant,
Isabella County, Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe and
Union Township officials.
For those unable to attend

ing on the court’s decision,
Mioduszewski said.
Mioduszewski said this
type of threat is rare, especially in Isabella County.
“It’s uncommon when
serious threats happen
against schools,” he said.
The case remains under investigation by the
Isabella County Sheriff ’s
Department.
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CMU to see what it is like to
be in college.
“It’s pretty cool because
you kind of get to experience
what college life is kind of
like,” Jalen said.
Cedar Springs freshman
Sebastian Andringa was visited by his younger brother
and enjoyed bonding with
him during the weekend
by playing in the racketball
rooms in the SAC, rockwall climbing and sharing
an all-you-can-eat pancake
breakfast.
“I just really like it because I don’t really get to
see him so much,” Andringa
said. “Just being around
him the whole time is really
cool.”
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tunities for CMU’s campus.
The public is welcome to
attend on Feb. 25, 26 and 27
to comment on the concepts.
For those interested but unable to provide input at one
of the meetings, a campuswide survey is set to be held
this week.
university@cm-life.com

VOICES

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
– The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

I really don’t
get this huge
$$ spectacle
Are you ready for some football?
Better question: are you ready
for five hours of pyrotechnics,
strange commercials, disappointing musical performances
and a neutral-site football game
between two teams that have no
geographical connection to this
area?
If you answered “yes,” Sunday
evening was probably a rollicking good time for you. If you
answered “no” or “I really don’t
care,” we should hang out together.
I don’t really understand the
Super Bowl.
It doesn’t make sense to have a
championship game at a neutral
site. One of the most thrilling aspects of sports is a raucous home
crowd that loves the home team
and hates those “away” bastards.
The Super Bowl features a less
partisan crowd, and the TV broadcast makes it sound like everyone
there is indiscriminately cheering
like an idiot from the kickoff to
the trophy presentation.
As a hockey fan, I’m used to the
Stanley Cup Finals; a best-of-seven series between two teams that
had to win 12 games to get there.
Like the World Series, there are
home and away games with fans
who attend out of passion. Fans
just go to the Super Bowl to see a
very expensive spectacle.
Maybe I’d enjoy the Super Bowl
if I watched the rest of the NFL
playoffs, but I can’t just pick an
arbitrary team and root for them
for one game (unless I have a
monetary wager.)
Every cheer, fist-pump or highfive would be a lie.
In a small way, I feel like I’d be
cheating on the Detroit Lions. I’m
not sure why I’d feel badly about
that, since the Lions have been
horrible enough over the years to
create a legion of Packers fans in
Michigan, but I never get excited
when teams other than the Red
Wings score in a hockey game.
But the Super Bowl isn’t really
about the football. It’s just an
excuse to get together, drink and
celebrate American culture (kind
of like Thanksgiving.)
I’m all for bending the elbow
with friends, but I’d rather not
pretend I’m celebrating because
of a football game.
Can’t we just get drunk and
watch infomercials? Or maybe we
could get drunk and watch VH1
Classic, so we could see now-geriatric rock stars perform in their
prime, instead of watching the
reanimated corpses of the Rolling
Stones or The Who at halftime.
Shoot, we could even watch music
videos on MTV (or its equivalent
channel that actually plays music), if we have a hankering to see
pop-stars lip-synching.
Maybe my attitude will change
if the Lions ever make it past the
first round of the playoffs. Let’s be
honest, though; I’m not going to
live that long. But, in my remaining 60 years, I’m not wasting five
hours a year on the Super Bowl.
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I

Safe rather than convenient?
n light of the Jan. 16 abduction of a Grand
Rapids senior in the Student Activity Center

parking lot, new parking lot regulations allowing
students to park closer to the SAC during
sporting events should be considered.

This could be accomplished
through limited parking closest to
the Events Center, which is usually
reserved for season ticket holders
and Chippewa Club members.
Though athletics deems those
who fall into this category as being valuable to the CMU athletics
program, through revenue from
donations to the program, these
roped off areas are not usually
filled to capacity.
Rather than holding out hope
that a CMU sporting event will
draw in a big crowd, why not

encourage car pooling or limiting
preferential treatment to those
who RSVP ahead of time?
The truth is, the proximity of
parking spots has been one of the
main concerns among some students in going to an athletic event,
besides the team’s record. Having
to walk 100 yards to your vehicle
in the dark after working out just
because there’s a sporting event
going on next door isn’t exactly
fair, or safe.
So, with the lack of student
attendance and support, are the

Chippewa Club members the most
valuable at this point? If a spot is
open within five minutes of game
time, why can’t students take over
a vacant spot 30 feet away from
the entrance rather than 100 feet
away?
In addition to accessibility,
safety comes into the discussion
as well with students parking
further toward the back away from
spectators. This campus is small,
and only so much can be done for
utilizing the parking lots made
available, but any minor change
could go a long way.
Maybe it’s time to look at an
additional parking area or facility.
Students pay more to this university on a yearly basis than Chippewa
Club members or season ticket
holders do, so it’s time to start
offering students the accommodations at sporting events that those
individuals get.

[ EDITORIAL CARTOON ]

Jessica Fecteau
Staff Reporter

Are you
a slave to
technology?
You wake up and log on to Facebook, scrolling through your news
feed long enough to find some
inspiration to rise out of bed and
stand up.
You brush your teeth and go
back to your phone because
you got a text. Meanwhile, you
continue brushing while texting —
because you’re good like that.
Then you resume getting ready
after logging on to Spotify to start
playing your favorite songs.
Ha, your hair looks funny —
better Snapchat that.
Log on to Twitter and see if
anything, like, important is going
on in the world.
Send between 15 and 172 more
texts throughout the day by consistently looking at your phone
in three-minute intervals, even
though you know you’d hear it if it
went off.
Sound familiar?
You might be a slave to technology.
If your phone goes off, you
immediately attend to it. If you
leave it at home when you run to
the store, you feel naked. If you’re
eating a delicious-looking meal,
you must Instagram it.
Not only that, but it takes five
different apps to help you sit
through a $1,095-per-semester
lecture.
For many people, it is a way
to feel validated. Every “like” on
Facebook makes you feel as if
you’re on the right track with life.
Every “retweet” makes you feel
like what you’re saying is important.
Filtered photos, Tumblr confessions, 140-character graphs,
Facebook messages — they are
all ways technology has a grip
on our understanding of what’s
important and how we fit into the
world.
A guy in my class confessed he
is diagnosed as addicted to his
iPhone. He said this while he had
the phone gripped in his palm.
I’ll admit, if I don’t have my
phone, I feel naked.
I will also admit that is the most
ridiculous thing ever.
I should feel naked when I
don’t have clothes on not when I
don’t have my phone near me.
It’s one addiction that doesn’t
seem to have an end. New gadgets
and apps and sites are being developed every day. We are living
in a technology-based world.
Therefore, if you’re going to be
addicted, make it a healthy one
(if those exist) by using it to your
advantage and not for watching
YouTube videos until your eyes
bleed.
But, just like with any “healthy”
lifestyle, there are always some
exceptions.
Commence: cat videos.

[ YOUR VOICE ]
Reader reactions to the Jan. 30
story “CMU’s graduate student
union reveals platform, hopes to
begin bargaining for new contract
in March”
Good job, GSU! Solidarity from
UM GEO!
-Jim McAsey
We grad teachers aren’t doing
this job just for the money, and the
contracts we negotiate aren’t just
about the money, either. It’s about
fairness for all who work. Solidarity from UM GEO.
-sj1020
You’re so young and naive.
We’ve got people with Master’s
degrees in their thirties who can’t
make a living wage or get healthcare, and you’re talking about
STARTING at the bottom? Get
real! These people are STUCK
at the bottom, and they’re going
to get their rights the same way
people have gotten their rights
throughout history: by organizing
and demanding respect.
If you’re worried about your
tuition, I suggest you do the same:
organize a student union and be
ready to hold the administration’s
feet to the fire. But if you want

to talk down the value of college
graduates’ labor, it’ll only come
back on you. The intern-ization
of labor should be a concern of all
young people. How are you going
to pay back your loans when you
graduate into our brave new world
where all of a sudden everyone
expects you to work for free or
almost free in the hopes that your
employer will someday decide to
pay you for what you’ve already
been doing for next-to-nothing?
-geoff
In other words, you expect your
instructors to *just give you* their
efforts? Even Adam Smith said,
“It is not from the benevolence
of the butcher, the brewer or the
baker that we can expect our dinner but from their regard to their
own interest.” Just because one is
a dedicated educator who cares
about her students doesn’t mean
one has to work for peanuts in bad
conditions.
-Andrew Cooper
What do you mean by “my
‘job?’” Why the quotations on
“job?” Are you suggesting it’s not a
job? Do you work 40 hours a week
for free?
-Mark Coco

Central Michigan Life
What a joke. This is going to
lead to another tuition increase.
What’s next? A union for RAs and
freshman cafeteria workers?
-Nagiom
Are you a graduate assistant?
If you’re not, then you have no
idea what it feels like to be one.
We are constantly pressured into
going out of our way to do more
and more, and the job itself is
often thankless to begin with. We
are overworked, underpaid and
carry a burden everyday to provide
students like you with the best
education possible. If CMU decides to increase tuition, you can
be sure it has absolutely nothing to
do with GAs. We only want what’s
fair. And, yes, RAs like myself
SHOULD have a union. We create
publishable research that CMU
gets to put its name on, assist faculty with their own research and
yet are apparently unworthy of
something as simple as health care
and solidarity.
You sound like an idiot. The
right to unionize should be available to all employees. If CMU
increases tuition, you can be sure
it has nothing to do with us GAs.
-Breanna Knudsen

Geography class work to be included
in Mount Pleasant master plan update
By Emily Grove
Senior Reporter

Melissa Bloem /Staff Photographer

CMU Alum Stefanie Baranic talks with the women in charge of the Saudi Arabia booth during the International Expo Sunday
afternoon in the Rotunda room at Bovee University Center.

International Expo attracts more than
200 students from more than 24 countries
By Ryan Fitzmaurice
Staff Reporter

Srikanth Seelam stood
in front of his display table,
dressed in traditional Indian
clothing. He placed his palms
together as in prayer, and
bowed his head.
“This is how we greet
each other in India,” India
graduate student Seelam said.
Three onlookers greeted him
back, in a similar fashion.
The display tables behind
him were overflowing with
Indian artifacts, flags, informational posters, cuisine and
maps; one showing the 30
different languages that are
spoken throughout India.
This display was an attempt to capture India’s
culture, one, in the words of
Seelam, that is made of “one
billion people, one billion
hearts.”
It was one of 24 different
displays that made up the
International Expo.
Deemed the International
Student Organization’s biggest event of the year by ISO
President Ibrahim Neyazmuhammed, a graduate student
from Saudi Arabia, the Expo
was a chance for several
international cultures on
campus to come under one

roof and share their cultures
and traditions.
About 275 students attended the expo, which was
held from noon to 5 p.m. in
the University Center Bovee
Rotunda Sunday. The event
was free and open to the
public.
Abdulrahman Alfawaz, a
freshman from Saudi Arabia,
sat on a cushion next to
his display table, behind a
display of Saudi Arabian
foods, including butter coffee,
crackers and date cookies.
According to Alfawaz, it
represented a common scene
in the country, not even 100
years ago, when a majority of
Saudis still lived in tents.
“We want to share our
culture and make students
familiar with it on campus,”
Alfawaz said.
Freshman Toktar Alimbekov also shared many of his
country’s trademark cuisines,
including “Kurt,” a fried, rockhard cheese, that was supposed to be sucked, not eaten.
“It’s not like American
cheese,” the Kazakhastan native said. “Don’t bite it.”
The Expo also featured
several presentations from
multiple countries and served
a hot meal consisting of food
from nine different countries.

Freshman Anmar Khalawi
of Saudi Arabia performed
a traditional Saudi Arabian
song on guitar but played it in
a non-traditional way.
“It’s an Arabic song, except
it’s like a mix,” Khalawi said.
“I played it the American way,
on guitar.”
Khalawi said events like this
are important to international
students around campus.
“It allows us to share our
culture and support others
around campus,” Khalawi
said.
Matthew Roede, a Kent
City freshman, said he came
to the event because an international student he sat next
to in a class told him about it.
“It’s just great to see all
these countries that have so
many different things going
on,” Roede said. “It’s kind of
like a race to see all the different stuff.”
Neyazmuhammed said
the event went better than
expected.
“We’ve been working on this for four
weeks,”Neyazmuhammed
said. “... It’s huge for us,
because this is a chance for
every culture to express itself
in the same place.”
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The city of Mount Pleasant
will update its master plan later
this year and the work of nine
Central Michigan University
students will be included.
When Xiao Guang Wang,
assistant professor of urban
planning, transportation and
human geography, came to
CMU a few years ago, she said
she always knew she wanted
her students to collaborate
with the city.
The opportunity finally
came last spring for her GEO
531: Integrated Land Use Planning class.
“Last year, Jeff Gray (director of planning and community
development in Mount Pleasant) sent me an email saying
the city was updating the master plan, and the 2010 census
data was also just released,”
Wang said. “We thought it
was a perfect project for the
students because they could
help participate in the master
plan updating process and use

what they had learned in class
to help the city.”
Gray had previously been to
Wang’s classes to give lectures,
but this was a chance for students to gain real experience
for their final project.
The students were split
into three groups to look at
the breakdown of population,
housing and socioeconomic
status within Mount Pleasant.
The groups were tasked
with downloading the newly
released census data and completing an analysis and write up
of their findings.
“The nice thing about the
project is that each of the
groups had at least one student
with a Geographic Information
System background,” Wang
said. “They could put the data
into a program and make maps
to see things, like what the
population density looked like
in an area by age and gender or
where owner-occupied housing was.”
Gray came into the class a
few times during the semester
to check on the progress of the

groups and guide them.
The class was structured like
a consulting firm, Gray said,
and the groups received an
outline of what Mount Pleasant
expected them to come up
with from their data.
“We didn’t really know what
to expect,” Gray said. “When I
was in graduate school, I did a
project like this, but I’d never
led a project like this and it was
the first time the professor was
able to do a real world project.
Overall, we were so pleased
with how smoothly it went and
the product they produced.”
In late April, the groups presented their reports at City Hall
to the Planning Commission.
Commissioners then
decided to adopt the updates
provided by the students and
will incorporate the reports
in the Master Plan when it is
finalized.
Gray said the master plan is
still being worked on and will
hopefully be completed by the
end of 2013.
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The Institutional Review
Board has appointed College
of Medicine fixed-term faculty
member Leaden Hickman to
serve as interim coordinator
following leadership changes
earlier this month.
In accordance with federal
requirements, the board was
created to oversee institutional
research at Central Michigan University, specifically
research involving human
experimentation.
“In the review process, we
look at ethical concerns, scientific validity and legality,”
Vice President of Research
and Sponsored Programs
John McGrath said. “The
board ensures that humans
see no harm in the process of

institutional research.”
The coordinator position is
generally reserved for board
members with the highest
level of expertise. According
to the news release, Hickman
was appointed to join the other
18 board members due to his
experience in social, behavioral
and biomedical fields.
Hickman is a course director for society and community
medicine in the College of
Medicine. He has held faculty
positions at Wayne State University, University of Michigan
and Oakland University. Hickman’s experience also includes
a Ph.D. and a Master of Science
degree in epidemiology and
community medicine from
Wayne State University.
“It’s important to have people from diverse backgrounds,”
McGrath said. “There’s likely

to be an increase in human
experimentation with the
addition of the medical school.
(Hickman) was a good choice,
because it allows for greater
representation from the medical school.”
According to section 5-4 of
CMU’s administrative policies,
under procedures and guidelines, the IRB has full jurisdiction over all human subject
research conducted under the
auspices of CMU, regardless of
the funding source or performance site.
McGrath said the IRB
handles more than 400
requests for experimentation
over the course of the year. It
is unclear how many of these
requests are approved during
any given year.
university@cm-life.com

Completing a regional
survey and creating an
advisory board are the
future initiatives for the
Mid-Michigan Area Health
Education Center at Central
Michigan University.
Executive Director Lisa
Hadden leads the program,
which was created in 2010
by a federal grant to recruit
and train a health care
workforce in Michigan.
“We believe this program is much-needed, as
Michigan is suffering from
a shortage of professionals
in almost all fields in health
care,” Hadden said via email.
“We really enjoy our work
and believe that our contributions over time will bring
something to the table.”
The AHEC is a non-profit
corporation housed in the
College of Medicine at
CMU built on three pillars:
recruitment, placement and
retention.
Hadden said the corporation has plans to complete a
regional survey to assess the
needs and assets that support
or create barriers to access to
primary care.
A regional advisory board
encompassing 19 local counties is also on the agenda to
assist in following through on
the goals of the Mid-Michigan AHEC.
“We will also be meeting
with the Michigan Works!
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be without heat, so I’ll do anything I can to help.”
Student volunteers were
stationed along the downtown route, greeting walkers
as they passed.
Kingsley sophomore
Nicole Fisher, who comes

training
programs
in health
professions
and gain
an understanding of
the type of
credentials
Lisa Hadden
needed for
various positions in health
care,” Hadden said.
Since her resignation as
president of the Mount Pleasant Area Chamber of Commerce on July 12, Hadden
said she has focused on the
foundational work to get the
AHEC corporation up and
running.
“This took several months
of hiring and training staff,
establishing a board of directors, developing a budget,
updating bylaws and working
with many departments of
the university to finalize our
service agreements,” she said.
The AHEC hosted a simulcast, a simultaneous transmission of the same program,
in the Health Professions
auditorium on Jan. 25 for
CMED and College of Health
Professions faculty.
At the live event at Saginaw

Valley State University, two
nationally renowned speakers focused on enhancing
the quality, effectiveness and
accountability of care across
the continuum.
Another current initiative
involves working with the
AHEC office at Wayne State
University to provide afterschool tutoring in math and
science and summer camp
opportunities for five local
high schools.
Dentistry and veterans
programs are also current
priorities for the Mid-Michigan AHEC.
While the initial five
months of work hasn’t
involved interacting with students, Hadden said it is a goal.
“Once we meet all of the
structural recruitment for
the grant and our funders at
Wayne State University, we
will be more involved in educating students about opportunities in the health careers
and the related educational
requirements,” Hadden said.
Calls made to CMED Dean
Ernest Yoder were not returned in time for publication.
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“We believe this program is much-needed,
as Michigan is suffering from a shortage of
professionals in almost all fields in health care.”
Lisa Hadden, Executive Director of Mid-Michigan Area
Health Education Center at Central Michigan University

By Shelby Miller
Senior Reporter

A Farwell mother, 37,
has been arrested for
threatening Beal City
School personnel, forcing
the school into a lockdown.
Beal City High School,
3117 Elias Road, went into
lockdown around 9:10 a.m.
Friday when the mother
of a former student made

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Spence said this Sibs
Weekend is bittersweet because she’s graduating at the
end of the spring semester.
Spence and her younger
siblings said they have been
having a Sibs Weekend
countdown to the event and
has been the highlight of
their year.
“It means a lot because
I get to spend quality time
with them,” Spence said. “…
And being able to show them
why I love this university
so much. It’s just a lot of
bonding and things to do. So,
we get to have a jam-packed
weekend of fun.”

Rochester Hills sophomore Cianna Fant wanted
her brother to see what she
does while she is at school
and away from home.
“I just think it’s fun that
your siblings can come and
see what you do throughout the school year while
they’re at home, and you get
to spend time with them,
and there are activities,”
Fant said.
Fant’s 15-year-old brother
Jalen said he misses his
sister when she’s away but
was happy to reconnect with
her over the weekend. Jalen
said he also enjoys coming to

PLAN |

the meetings this week,
there will be open office
hours in the Ausable Room
in the UC Tuesday from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.and Wednesday
from 1 to 7 p.m.
In addition, the master
plan team will reunite the
week of Feb. 25 to work on
design concepts to address
identified needs and oppor-

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from a small area herself and
is familiar with the cause,
appreciates the fact that it
is a local effort where 100
percent of the proceeds goes
to the community.
Senior Kierstin DeWitt of
Port Huron and junior Marie
Foggia of Brownstown were
at the walk representing
the Student Association of
Nutrition.
“The walk was brought to

my attention by one of our
members” DeWitt said. “It
seemed like a good charity
to help, so we decided to
volunteer.”
Walkers were invited back
to warm up afterward and
help judge a soup and chili
cook-off, putting donations
in the jars to vote for their
favorite.
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threats to school personnel saying she was going to
“level the building.”
“She was upset at the
school,” Isabella County
Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski
said. “Evidently, she was
trying to get her daughter
back there. The mother
became irate.”
The woman was arrested
and is currently being held
at the Isabella County Jail.
She will be arraigned Saturday or Monday, depend-

They will also meet with
the city of Mount Pleasant,
Isabella County, Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe and
Union Township officials.
For those unable to attend

ing on the court’s decision,
Mioduszewski said.
Mioduszewski said this
type of threat is rare, especially in Isabella County.
“It’s uncommon when
serious threats happen
against schools,” he said.
The case remains under investigation by the
Isabella County Sheriff ’s
Department.
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CMU to see what it is like to
be in college.
“It’s pretty cool because
you kind of get to experience
what college life is kind of
like,” Jalen said.
Cedar Springs freshman
Sebastian Andringa was visited by his younger brother
and enjoyed bonding with
him during the weekend
by playing in the racketball
rooms in the SAC, rockwall climbing and sharing
an all-you-can-eat pancake
breakfast.
“I just really like it because I don’t really get to
see him so much,” Andringa
said. “Just being around
him the whole time is really
cool.”
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tunities for CMU’s campus.
The public is welcome to
attend on Feb. 25, 26 and 27
to comment on the concepts.
For those interested but unable to provide input at one
of the meetings, a campuswide survey is set to be held
this week.
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In a convincing 25-6 win
for Central Michigan wrestling over Old Dominion Sunday, there were two matches
that stood out.
The first key win for the
No. 12 Chippewas was Mike
Ottinger, who scored a 10-4
win in the 165 weight-class.
CMU had lost two out of three
previous matches before Ottinger after winning the first
two of the day. Ottinger’s win
ensured momentum in CMU’s
favor as the they didn’t lose a
match the rest of the way.
CMU coach Tom Borrelli said Ottinger has been
improving all season and
scored a lot of points Sunday
by wrestling around his opponent Brett Miller’s moves.
Borrelli said Ottinger scored
points by wrestling Miller’s
arms and legs.
Ottinger said he was satisfied with the win but, looking
back on it, said he wanted a
couple takedowns.
“I still got to work on my
top riding,” Ottinger said. “I
felt like I could have held him
down a little longer, probably
would have broke him. If I
work on that, I think it could
get easier.”
The other key win was No.
2 Ben Bennett in a strong 9-0
win against Austin Coburn.
The decisive win for Bennett
was an improvement over his
1-0 win last week against Kent
State.
“I was just trying to score
some points, especially after
last weekend,” Bennett said. “I
was pretty relaxed before the
match — felt good.”
Borrelli said Bennett wants
to dominate each match, but
opponents go on the defensive
and avoid many of Bennett’s
moves, which sometimes
frustrates him.
“Sometimes, it’s difficult to
wrestle a guy like that,” Bennett said. “You work pretty
hard in a wrestling match like
that. It isn’t what you want —
you want to go out there and
you want to be in a wrestling
situation. Avoiding the wrestling is kind of disappointing.
It’s frustrating, but I got to
find ways to get around that.”
Bennett said his focus on
domination may sometimes
distract him from his strategies, but he still focuses on
one thing at a time.
“I got to figure out other
ways to take that I normally
wouldn’t take maybe, to get
the guy’s legs.”
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I knew I had to keep that
momentum going,” said Borrelli. “Ottinger came out and
was focused on attacking,
which is what we want. He
pushed the pace, wrestled
well on his feet and got a lot
of takedowns.”
The Chippewas didn’t
lose any momentum after
that and won the rest of the
matches, making the final
score 25-6.
The team is back for
senior night Friday when
it takes on conference rival
Eastern Michigan at 7 p.m. at
McGuirk Arena.

Perfect no more.
The Central Michigan
women’s basketball team
lost its first Mid-American
Conference game in ugly
fashion Sunday afternoon,
84-59, to perennial conference power Bowling Green.
Sophomore guard Crystal
Bradford didn’t start the
game for the Chippewas
due to illness but came in
soon after the opening tip
and got on the board right
away with a three-point
shot at the 16:09 mark, putting CMU up 10-9, its only
lead of the game. Sophomore forward Jas’Mine
Bracey got the start for
Bradford.
Bowling Green’s defense
and ability to force turnovers and make three-point
shots in crucial moments
were the keys to victory for
the Falcons. BGSU (14-7, 5-3
MAC) was the first MAC
team to score 70-plus points
on CMU this season.
Head coach Sue Guevara
said she wasn’t pleased
with the team’s defensive discipline and overall
mental preparation for the
game.
“We had some very poor
individual play. I thought
mentally we didn’t have
some players ready,” Guevara said. “We were not
disciplined on defense. I
thought we had good ball
movement, but we did not
finish our shots. You have to
take personal responsibility
for this and give Bowling
Green credit.”
Bradford finished with 14
points and nine rebounds,
while senior guard Brandie
Baker added 14 points to go
along with three rebounds.
CMU (13-8, 7-1 MAC) shot
42 percent in the game to
Bowling Green’s 56 percent,
including a gaudy 10-for-18
from three-point range. The
Chippewas were six-for-21
from deep.
There wasn’t too much
going down for CMU
against Bowling Green’s
zone defense in the first
half. The Falcons led 27-18
at the 7:06 mark in the first
half.
The game started off
slowly for both teams
offensively, but Bowling
Green started getting hot
from deep, extending its
lead to nine, 24-15, at the
8:01 mark, its largest lead of
the half.

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Sophomore 165-pounder Mike Ottinger wrestles with an Old Dominion’s Brett Miller in a 10-4 decision Sunday afternoon at McGuirk Arena.

Cruise control
Wrestling winning streak
hits five after 25-6 win over Old Dominion
By Bryce Huffman | Staff Reporter

The No. 11 Chippewas defeated the
Monarchs of Old Dominion University
25-6 to stretch their winning streak
to five matches Sunday afternoon at
McGuirk Arena.
The team hasn’t suffered a defeat in a
dual meet since Jan. 12, when it lost to
Virginia, 20-13. The Chippewas haven’t
lost a dual meet at home this season.
There was much more
scoring early in the match
than there was last week
when the Chippewas defeated Kent State. The match
was also much closer early.
“Early on, guys were
pushing the pace more and
that’s what I wanted to see,”
head coach Tom Borrelli
said. “We had a couple of
close matches, but, overall,
I’m happy with the way we
wrestled today.”
No. 2 senior Ben Bennett
clinched the win for the
Chippewas with a 9-0 win
over freshman Austin Coburn to give the Chippewas
a 19-6 lead.

“I was focused on scoring,”
Bennett said. “So, I was a
little frustrated when I wasn’t
getting points immediately.”
No. 5 senior heavyweight
Jarod Trice finished the
Monarchs off after defeating heavyweight sophomore
Matt Tourdot, 2-1.
The match began with
an upset as CMU junior
Joe Roth won 5-2 over No.
14 Jerome Robinson at 125
pounds, making the team
score 3-0. Roth never gave
the lead to the sophomore
Robinson during his match.
“Roth is a very capable
backup,” Borrelli said. “
So, I figured, why not use

him? Then he got the job
done against a pretty good
wrestler.”
No. 7 senior Scotti Sentes
would increase the lead to 6-0
by winning 7-3 against junior
Scott Festejo at 133 pounds.
After redshirt freshman
Luke Smith lost 6-3 to senior
Brennan Brumley at 157
pounds, making the score
9-6, sophomore Mike Ottinger put the match in his
hands. Ottinger won 10-4
over senior 165-pounder
Brett Miller in the match that
could have tied up the team
score.
“I knew my team was doing well,” Ottinger said. “But

Riding a three-game losing
streak and the toughest part of
the Mid-American Conference
schedule on the horizon, the
men’s basketball team needed
a win.
It didn’t get it Saturday, and
Miami (Ohio) left McGuirk
Arena with a 70-61 win, and
CMU left with a four-game
losing streak and matchup
at MAC-leader Akron on
Tuesday.
“Every loss is tough whether
you win a few in row or lose,”
head coach Keno Davis said.
“We have to make sure we
keep it in perspective on
where our team is at; there
was a point a few months
before the season that I didn’t
know if we’d win four games
all year.”
The Chippewas struggled
offensively in the first half,
shooting 26.9 percent from the
field and a lowly 36.4 percent

from the free-throw line.
But, in the second half, that
all changed.
CMU shot 42.1 percent in
the second half overall and 91.7
percent from the free-throw
line, but it wasn’t enough.
“That’s just a part of the
game, some go and some
don’t,” freshman guard Chris
Fowler said. “We’ve got great
shooters on the team, but even
great shooters miss shots.”
Freshman forward Blake
Hibbitts hit four three-pointers, leading the team to a 31.6
shooting percentage from
beyond the arc, for 12 points,
but he didn’t hit a single shot
in the second half.
Senior guard Kyle Randall
was strong on the night with a
team-leading 20 points.
“Overall, we improved, but
we actually went down with
the three-point percentage,”
Davis said. “We’re trying to
build around those shooters,
and, when those shots don’t go
down, it’s tough (to win).”

CMU’s lack of a post presence on defense has hurt the
team all season. Senior center
Zach Saylor, who missed a portion of the season with a knee
injury, fixed that problem early
on with three blocks before
the first media timeout.
In fact, coming into the
game, defense was a problem for both the RedHawks
and the Chippewas, who are
ranked at the bottom of the
MAC in defense.
“In those first five minutes,
our defense presence was
good,” Davis said.
Miami struggled in the first
half from the field and freethrow line but improved from
the field in the second half,
shooting 47.6 percent.
Heading into the game, both
teams controlled the ball well
with good distributors in junior guard Quinten Rollins for
the RedHawks and freshman
guard Chris Fowler for CMU.
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Kyle
Randall
needs help
Senior guard Kyle Randall
cannot do it all for the men’s
basketball team.
He must not be the only
player that Central Michigan
can count on.
But if that continues to be the
case, look for the Chippewas
to continue their downward
spiral.
Their 8-6 record is now long
gone, and the 9-12 record is
what they’re dealt after losing
six of their last seven games.
In their 70-61 loss to Miami,
it was all much of the same.
Randall scored 14 of the last
23 points that CMU tallied in
the second half.
Afterward, head coach Keno
Davis tried to keep it in perspective, saying he did not know if
the Chippewas would win four
games this year at one point
before the season.
But Randall surprised and
helped CMU pull off a few close
wins in the non-conference
schedule and raised expectations.
To return to success, Randall
needs a running mate badly,
and there are at least a few
candidates for the position who
could possibly be ready by time
the conference tournament
rolls around.
The first player to look at is
freshman forward Blake Hibbitts.
He seemed to be etching his
place as the second player Central Michigan could count on in
the first half Saturday night. He
was dropping three-pointers
with ease.
At one point in the game, he
faked as if he was going to pass it
but launched the shot, knocking
down his second-straight threepointer to make it 12-8 CMU
midway through the first half.
He would make two more from
beyond the arc before halftime.
But, in the second half, he
vanished, not scoring a point.
In the last minute of the
game, he had two shots from the
three-point line that could have
pulled CMU within reach, but
they were both missed.
Another player to look at is
obvious, and that is freshman
guard Chris Fowler.
He continues to impress with
his passing skills. He is eight
assists away from breaking the
freshman record with 108.
When he starts scoring more
points, he will be a nightmare
for the MAC.
Lastly, there is senior guard
Finis Craddock.
He is not a player who can
vie to be the go-to guy next year
when Randall is gone like the
other two; his time is now or
never.
Normally, it is an enormous
reach for a player in his last year
to make a leap in scoring at the
end of the season, but he has
improved throughout this year
and has much more to learn in
the last month or so in Davis’
system.
The standard for the whole
season, as it was after the RedHawks game, is that they just
need to keep getting better.
If one of the three players
not only improves little by little
but makes major strides and
aids Randall, then maybe — just
maybe — they can surprise
MAC teams in March like they
are hoping.
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By Jeff Papworth
Staff Reporter

The men’s basketball
team faces long odds as it
travels to Akron for a game
at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Central Michigan has lost
four-straight games, while
the Zips have won their
last 13.
In Akron’s last game
Saturday, it defeated Ohio, a
2012 Sweet 16 team, to take
hold of first place in the
Mid-American Conference.
The Zips are most difficult to beat at home, boasting an 11-0 record at James
A. Rhodes Arena. This is
bad news for CMU, which
is 1-7 on the road.
Akron is led by a group of
six upperclassmen who are
the team’s top six scorers.
Senior center Zeke Marshall and junior forward
Demetrius Treadwell are
both averaging double
figures in points per game
with 13 and 10.8, respectively.
Marshall is known for
blocking shots as well, with
3.65 per game, the fifth best
average in the country.
Marshall will look to go
4-0 against the Chippewas
in his career. CMU is 13-27
against Akron all-time, with
its last win in 2008.
CMU started the season

with a 7-6 non-conference
record, but it has gone
downhill since.
They are 2-6 in the conference with wins over Ball
State and Bowling Green.
“We just need to get better, stay focused and keep
coming out working hard
every day. That’s what we
strive to do,” senior guard
Kyle Randall said after Saturday’s loss to Miami. “You
want to be playing your
best basketball in March.”
Their weaknesses lies in
field goal percentage offense and defense.
CMU allows teams to
make 46.9 percent their
shots, 324th in the nation.
In field goal percentage
offense, it ranks 307th,
making 40 percent of their
shots.
“We need to make more
shots and get more defenKaitlin Thoresen/Staff Photographer
sive stops,” Randall said.
“It’s something we need to Freshman guard Chris Fowler tries to dribble past Miami guard Geovonie McKnight Saturday night at McGuirk Arena. CMU lost 70-61.
keep getting better at.”
Head coach Keno Davis
decided to bench sophosaid. “We are trying to put
assist if they don’t make the
Fowler needs eight assists
more guard Austin Keel
the best starting lineup
shot.”
against Akron to break the
Saturday and start freshtogether to get us off to a
Setting his teammates up
freshman record, which is
man guard Derrick Richgood start.”
to score is not the only area
115.
ardson Jr.
Richardson did not score
he is helping CMU.
“My role is to get the
He did not say if the
any points in 19 minutes of
He is averaging 6.4 points
guys involved,” Fowler said.
lineup would remain the
play but provided help at
per game and leads the
“If that’s the case and I’m
same Tuesday.
what he does best — defense. that close to the record, I
Chippewas in steals with 27
“I think we will look
for the season.
got to give all the credit to
at different guys as we
Fowler closing in on record
my teammates that I have
continue the season,” Davis
Freshman guard Chris
because you can’t get an
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No. 23 Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan
gymnastics teamed up to
take on Illinois State and
the University of IllinoisChicago in the MichiganIllinois Challenge in
Chicago Saturday night.
Despite the Michigan
against Illinois pairing, all
team scores were counted
separately, with the winner
taking the trophy home for
its state.
The Chippewas outscored all teams with a
score of 195.875. Illinois
State was second with a
score of 194.1, while EMU
was third at 192.850 and
UIC was last with a score
of 192.8.
The meet was the CMU’s
second-straight quad meet
and third-straight away
from home. Away meets
eliminate a whole day of
practice; therefore, it is
vital for great practices.
“We had an intense,
almost grueling week
of practice,” head coach
Jerry Reighard said. “They
responded very well to the
harsh practices.”
CMU set its highest
score of the season, eclipsing its previous high by
.825. After recording two
scores in an event 49.0 or
higher, it was apparent
that the Chippewas were
out to send a message after
last weekend’s third-place
finish.
Freshman Kirsten Petzold scored a 9.9 in vault,
a new career high. Sophomore Kylie Fagan also
scored a career-best 9.875
on beam.
“Fagan had a great
day. She anchored in two
events and scored great
scores,” Reighard said. “I
get very excited when I

think about our future.”
Junior Brittany Petzold
also put up great numbers
in vault and floor, despite
coming off of a shoulder
injury. Her injury restricted her from competing in
bars, but, after only competing in one event in her
last meet, she is showing
good signs of recovery.
“Brittany’s shoulder just
wasn’t where it needed
to be; she went out and
earned a great vault score
for us,” Reighard said.
Although CMU eventually won by a big margin,
it did not lead the entire
meet.
“We had good numbers,
but they weren’t what I expected; we only had stuck
one landing,” Reighard
said. “There was gulp going to beam; there is only
four inches to work with.
We ignored the crown, and
the train kept rolling.”
The Michigan-Illinois
Challenge is a different
type of meet than others
for CMU. Although representing Michigan with
EMU, the Chippewas were
working individually to
not only better themselves
but to capitalize on the
championship-like format
of the quad meet.
“The challenge is a
really fun atmosphere,”
Reighard said. “The meet
is very competitive, and it
really showed tonight.”
The Chippewas had at
least one gymnast in the
top three of every event
with Fagan finishing first
of 24 in both of her events.
CMU’s next meet is
Friday when it hosts MidAmerican Conference foe
Northern Illinois at 7 p.m.
at McGuirk Arena.
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Senior forward Jessica
Schroll and junior Jessica
Green both struggled early
to get in an offensive rhythm,
but, eventually, both led the
Chippewas in points at the
half with six. Baker also had
six points.
Bowling Green held the
MAC’s best offense to only 30
points at the half.
Bradford got CMU to
within five, 27-22, after a fast
break basket at the 3:10 mark.
Green then got the Chippewas to within one after a
drive to the basket layup with

just under two minutes to go
in the half to make it 27-26.
Bowling Green led 34-30
at the half. While CMU shot
48.1 percent in the first half, it
had 13 turnovers to only two
assists. The Falcons committed eight turnovers and had
more points off turnovers
than the Chippewas.
Bradford started the second half for the Chippewas
and scored the first basket of
the half. A three-point shot
and a foul allowed BGSU
senior guard Chirssy Steffen
to complete a four-point play,

putting the Falcons up 11, 4332, at the 17:05 mark.
Offensively, Bowling Green
kept up the pace going on a
13-4 run over the first 4:41 of
the second half to push the
scare to 47-34.
Bowling Green led by as
many as 28 points late in the
game.
Turnovers hurt the Chippewas in the second half as
Bowling Green was able to
take advantage and score
points. CMU had 21 turnovers in the game.
The Chippewas will look
to bounce back at Ball State
on Thursday. Tipoff is set for
7 p.m.
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The

Will
FRIDAY

February 15
7:30 p.m.
CMU - Plachta
Auditorium
A Play By Sandra Seaton
As we mark the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the
Civil War, The Will dramatizes the human consequences of
the war as experienced by the Websters, an African American
family in a small town in Tennessee.

Thursday, Feb. 14 10:00 a.m.
Park Library Auditorium
Free and open to the public
This event is presented by CMU Libraries
Sponsored by University Events, CMU Library’s, King Chavez Parks Visiting
Speakers Series, and College of Communications and Fine Arts

Sophomore runner Ethan Lievense runs out in front during the men’s one mile run on Friday, Jan 11 at Jack Skoog Indoor Track
as part of the CMU open. Lievense won the men’s one mile with a personal record of 4:20.25.

The Central Michigan
men’s track and field team
returned to action this weekend, competing in the Meyo
Invitational in South Bend,
Indiana.
Only a select few athletes
were sent to the meet at Notre
Dame, while members of the
throwing corps competed
separately at the University of
Findlay.
At Notre Dame, more than
49 other schools participated
in the invitational, including
LSU, Gerogia, Florida and others from all over the country.
Going into this weekend,
CMU hoped to use the intense
competitive atmosphere to
simulate the conditions of the
Mid-American Conference
championships. The high level
of talent provided a challenge
for the CMU distance runners
and sprinters.
“Overall, we had a lot of
solid marks moving us forward. Obviously, we had more
qualifiers this weekend, moving us up in the conference,”
director of track and field
Willie Randolph said.
In the 5,000 meters,

sophomore Ethan Lievense
finished fifth with a MAC
championship-qualifying
time of 14:30.02. Close behind
was sophomore Kyle Stacks,
who took 10th with a time of
14:35.74, which was also good
enough to qualify. The young
distance duo has been qualifying for their events week after
week and have now qualified
for the MAC Indoor Championships in the mile, the 3,000
meters and the 5,000 meters.
The CMU distance runners are a young group made
up of mostly sophomores,
with only three seniors and
one junior running distance
events. These young athletes
represent the team as a whole:
young, improving and hungry.
“We have a ton of guys
coming in really strong for
us,” Lievense said. “Guys like
Nate Ghena and Monte Scott,
who have only been here for a
couple years and haven’t had
a very prominent high school
experience, so they’re coming
in and really pushing Kyle and
I and the rest of the sophomores on the team. It’s great
that you’ve got that push on
your back reminding you that
you’ve got to be working hard

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Fowler ended the night
with seven assists, giving him
108 on the season, one shy of
a single-season record for a
freshman.
“My role is to get the guys
the ball,” Fowler said. “If
that’s the case and I’m that
close to the record, then I
have to give all the credit to
the team.”

Davis needed something to
spark his team, and he turned
to freshman guard Derrick
Richardson Jr., who got his
first start of the season over
sophomore guard Austin
Keel, who started the first 20
games of the season.
Richardson entered the
game shooting 45 percent
from the field and 33 percent

everyday.”
Junior sprinter Ross Parsons had his first MAC qualifying mark of the season in
the 60-meter dash with a time
of 6.90 seconds. He finished
eighth in the semifinal race,
which was not high enough to
continue to the finals.
Freshman hurdler Ziemowit Dutkiewicz took 10th in the
500-meter dash with a time of
1:05.13. With the large number
of elite athletes in the running
events, many Chippewas were
kept off the podium in South
Bend.
In Findlay, Ohio, the CMU
throwers competed at the
Findlay Open to gain experience at a meet with better
competition. The throwers
are led by senior and reigning
MAC discus champion Alex
Rose.
Rose threw in the shot put
“elite” competition at Findlay,
finishing ninth with a throw of
54-02.00. Junior Calvin Jackson threw in the men’s weight
throw on Friday. He did not
place in the event but qualified
for MAC championships with
a heave of 57-03.00.

The annual Meyo Invitational at the University Of
Notre Dame was a competition unlike any the Central
Michigan University women’s
track and field team has seen
yet this season.
With more than 80 universities from across the United
States and Canada competing
at the Loftus Center in South
Bend, Indiana, it was an increase in overall competition
for the Chippewas.
This heightened competition did not faze CMU and,
according to track and field
director Willie Randolph, did
not cause any lack of effort.
“Overall, we had a lot of solid marks moving us forward,”
Randolph said. “Obviously,
we had more qualifiers this
weekend, moving us up in the
conference.”
At a two-day meet with so
many individuals and events
taking place, it can be difficult
for athletes to stay focused and
remain goal-oriented. This
was something that Randolph
stressed to his team in preparation for the Meyo Invite.
One standout was senior
distance runner Maddie Ribant, who qualified by finishing
14th out of 59 in the 5,000
meters with a time of 17:07.72,
File Photo by Chuck Miller
setting a personal record in
Sophomore
hurdler
Bridget
Doughty,
left,
leaps
the
final hurdle during the women’s
the process.
60 meter hurdle on Friday, Jan. 11 at Jack Skoog Indoor Track as part of the CMU
Junior Krista Parks also
open. Doughty won the event with a time 8.94 seconds.
qualified with a time of
17:18.24.
about my body, and it’s just a
trust myself and my training;
In the 400 meters, sopholot of fun to get back compettrust is a big thing between my
more Bridget Doughty qualiing instead of just hearing
teammates and myself, and
fied for the Mid-American
about it.”
I know that’s what I need to
Conference championships
After a long battle with
work on.”
with a final time of 56.37.
injuries, she is finally back in
With the season picking
Senior middle distance
the swing of things and looks
up steam, the Chippewas are
runner Charnele Lyons failed
to continue to move in the
building off each performance
to place in this weekend’s
right direction. Lyons cites
in preparation for the quickly
meet, but that hasn’t changed
her performance at Notre
approaching MAC championher mindset as the season
Dame as a good motivator as
ship season.
continues.
the weeks go by. This comes
CMU will be back in pracAs a senior who hasn’t
despite a drastically different
tice this week to prepare for
competed in a while due to
atmosphere of competition
the Grand Valley State Univerinjuries, Lyons is happy to be
compared to previous meets.
sity Big Meet next weekend in
running once again.
“It was such a blast to be
Allendale.
“It’s fun and exciting but
in that atmosphere,” Lyons
also kind of challenging,”
said. “I just need to learn to
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from three-point range, while
Keel was shooting 32 percent
from the field and 24 percent
from three, where he is typically most dangerous.
“It was no different (with
Richardson starting),” Randall
said. “We’ve played with that
lineup before, so him starting
didn’t make a difference.”
CMU heads to James A.
Rhodes Arena on Tuesday
to take on the Zips, the lone
undefeated team in the MAC.
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
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